I mean, having a time dedicated to highlight it is important? It doesn't mean you can't talk about it outside of then, and it's ridiculous that people would say that as though awareness/appreciation for any other thing that has a day or a month doesn't get done outside of then.

As I mentioned, one of my issues with Discovery is that they just ignore the augment virus. It’s not set that long before TOS, but it’s sufficiently far out from ENT that it should have some mention of it, at least. Given the experimenting with WTF was going on with Ash (still confused about wh...

Also, they may have executed people after WW2, however I don't think the same would happen today, even with Hitler reincarnate. The death penalty isn't very common in most countries these days (even though it is legal in more than it is practised). The US is pretty much the only 'developed' country ...

If someone jaywalks in front of a moving car and is hit, the blame shouldn't necessarily be on the driver (although there could be a thousand different hypothetical situations we could discuss) because otherwise, people would just be walking on roads anywhere they please and cars wouldn't be able t...

My friend is trying to find a book she read as a teenager. About a girl who thinks her mother is a pir as te and bases her life on real female pirates when she goes to boarding school? She finds out her mother is actually an actress. Apparently there's a Shakespeare sonnet quoted in it.

When T'Challa first walks into Shuri's lab, you see at least 3 other women (nice touch) in the background, working on things. Most of the movie takes place in her private office/lab whathaveyou, but there are other people there.

Dude, chattel slavery on this scale was not that common. The forced movement and dehumanisation of over 1 million people in the name of slavery was not really that common. And again, roughly 20% of slaves going through the Middle Passage died. That's not counting those who died during capture and du...

Just keep digging. Are you really going with intercepting shipments of gold as being more important than the entirety of the Trade Triangle that lasted for over 200 years? And, to be honest, the slave trade is definitely at least up there with your tea (I mean, fueling a continent's worth of infight...

Yeah, casually saying that the worst of British atrocities had nothing to do with Africa is extremely problematic. Especially in the context of a movie that emphasises just how damaging this was. And also, clearly the point was that you weren't taught that part of your history. natraj never said tha...

I mean, everywhere that speaks English now is an ex-British colony if they aren't still a territory. It's nice how you basically seemed to ignore the entirety of the slave trade in your history apparently when it was the time that Britain was really getting to grips with consolidating its hold on th...

Like, I'm pretty sure a lot of the anti-slave trade stuff in the 1800s was less "Slavery is bad" and more "Fuck the rebellious assholes in the colonies" Moving on Actually a lot of the campaigning was ' slavery is bad ' and talking about the horrors they were having to go throug...

Yes, there are bits that are relevant to British history, but the worst excesses of British colonial history center around India, not Africa. Um, are you for serious right now? They were bad in different ways, but you can't say it was worse than Africa/Caribbean. Of course, I have come across peopl...

I thought it was pretty obvious with all the talk about Asgard being an empire built by war, but you don't have to take my word for it... (btw I just found these links by googling Thor Ragnarok imperialism because I'm not always great at expressing these things). https://www.tor.com/2017/11/07/thor-...

Yeah, he gives a good smirk when the guy in the audience asks what Wakanda can teach the world. I'm glad they gave him something to do in the final battle but kept him away from most of the action. Also, I was really glad they had Shuri actually in the thick of it for a while as well, rather th...

Yeah, the UK always seems to get Marvel movies before the US for some reason. Not that I'm complaining.... We watched it in Imax 3d. Not as great for the fight scenes but great for the scenery. Edit: Also, at the end liked the relevant twist on the African proverb In crisis the wise build bridges an...

It's pretty incredible. The design is absolutely amazing. The women are all strong, well developed characters, as well as background characters as well (all too often do you end up with people making an effort in the foreground and missing out the background). Not afraid of social commentary. I was ...